Two years ago I published a post entitled “things I wrote down
during OSBC”. It tuned out to be surprisingly popular, so I
decided to try the same formula again.

Just as was the case two years ago these are presented
chronologically. I wrote down a lot more than this, to be clear,
but these were the most quote-worthy things. Also, as in 2009,
some of them confirm things we already think about commercial
open source (or in some cases data management), others were
interesting ways of expressing old ideas:

Cloudera debuts Hadoop support with $5m in funding. The financial
value of open source. More patent problems for Red Hat.
Government open source projects on both sides of the pond.
Symbian’s release plan. And more.

Cloudera makes it official
We previously reported the launch of Cloudera a new vendor
set up to provide support for Apache Hadoop and related projects
back in October. The company made its official debut in …

Normally, I try to avoid reading business books. I especially
avoid those promoting the secret sauce to building great
companies. I figure the folks who actually do the building often
tend to be too busy working, or otherwise enjoying the fruits of
their labors instead of writing books. Plus, there are no
shortcuts into building enduring companies, regardless of what we
might see occasionally in the tech sector.

A few months ago I found myself at a bookstore and ended up
buying a book called …

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